Blasphemies and other Forms of Artistic Expression

BBC News - Jesus play Golgota Picnic angers Christians in France : " Can someone remind me again why the Xian protests over this play are different than the Muslim protest over the Muhammad cartoons?

This is an old article , but still worth a visit!  Our old buddy Pat never ceases to entertain! This happens to be a Top Ten list of Robertson's greatest batshit crazy moments, as compiled by Time Magazine.  Some are video clips, so you get to see the words fall out of his gob!

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised." ~ Samuel Butler

God exists only when you do not believe there is a God. When you believe in God, that God no longer exists. This is to say that God is to remain a completely abstract concept.  As long as God remains a concept of consciousness, God can exist.  At the point in time where God is personified and given identifiable human aspects, then that God has been given a corporeal existence.  As such, this God can not possibly exist..

Teacher sued for disparaging creationism cleared on appeal This is a bittersweet victory. I'm not one for injecting the sciences into religious thought, mainly because we have to accept that the source is accurate and scientific in itself. Of course, that doesn't work, as anyone who was hiding under their desks on May 21st could tell you. I have to side with the atheists on the area of creationism - it's bunk science. We are to assume that there may have been an 'intelligent designer' who was responsible for life on earth. That in itself is not a scientific question, but rather, a philosophical one. I can say that I believe in God because I do not take up the task of attempting to prove what god is or is not. It's not a scientific view by any means; but I feel that any discussion of God and science is pointless at best, and just plain batshit crazy at worst. If the creationists are willing to accept any source of occurance (including a godless , rand...

October 21, 2011 Judgment Day and End of the World! Tract - eBible Fellowship If you have not been to this site and listened to this podcast, you are really doing yourself a great injustice. 2+2 really can equal 5 if you wish and pray hard enough! New to the site is an explanation as to why we're all not wailing and gnashing our teeth in the eternal flames. Essentially, the earthquakes were more figurative, though everything else related to the rapture is assured to be literal. Please note that the 'final, official' rapture will occur on October 21, 2011 (rain or shine.) I, for one, will be celebrating the second annual Judgement Days (May 21 and Oct 21) by renting some top quality apocalypse movies and a sumptuous Last Meal. All are invited!!

Is the arrogance of an atheist any less great than that of an Xian?  What is the difference between an Xian trying to convert someone to Xianity and an atheist doing the same? Both sides have both created a God in their own image, but for entirely different reasons. 

I have been giving a lot of time and thought these days to my own ego and sense of worth.  It seems that we all strive to strike a balance between who we think we are, who we project ourselves as, and who we actually are.  The closer the first two are to the third idea, the centered our personality becomes. I am, of course, assuming I know what I am talking about.  But as I write this, I can sense the three aspects of my ego (read: personality) working their way into this post. Now - on to religion.  The proper belief and adherence to xianity hinges on the surrender of ego.  This would mean dropping any assumption of what the individual thinks they know of their gtod and meditating on what they cannot comprehend.  God is meant to be beyond good and evil - to assume that 'god is good' to to assume that one knows god, who is by definition unknowable.  So I would assume that praying to god to win a contest or 'give me strength' is a rather heretic view ...

On YouTube, I found an audio reading of Christopher Hitchen's 'God Is Not Great' . It was a reading of chapter two - 'Religion Kills.'  I listened to the reading, and kept an open mind to his point of view, as I tend to disagree with atheists for the same reasons I disagree with xians on the role of religion. Listening to the two of them debate is like listening to a political debate between Democrats and Republicans - pointless and needlessly cutthroat. So, in listening to Hitchens rant on about religion being evil, I could imagine the xian responses to his arguments, and how unconvincing they would be to his.  Hitchens uses religion as the backdrop to all the evils of the world, which isn't correct.  Given the theme of his chapter, I would argue that God, to quote Concrete Blonde, is more like a bullet.  And everyone knows that bullets don't kill people, people kill people!  Just as basing murder on the teachings of the three plus monotheistic religion...

I'm not a religious person, but I have an idea for the Xian concept of the Garden of Eden.  Genesis (Book 3) states that Adam and Eve were cast from the garden of Eden after eating of the Tree of Knowledge.  As most Christians, I was brought up to believe that this is the Original Sin, the core act of disobedience against the word of God that condemns man to death (and Hell, if you were fundamentalist Baptist.) Now, suppose that the Tree of Knowledge has nothing to do with knowing what is good and what is evil.  Rather, it is to know the true nature of God. Then the parable would make more sense: To admit that God exists is to say that God is not real. To say that God does not exist is to admit that God is real. Simply, to say that there is knowledge of God is to confess no knowledge of God.  To confess that there is no God is to acknowledge God.  God cannot exist if we believe He is real, though if we believe He is real, He cannot exist. It's too e...